The only reason those people are in shape is because they've been coming to the gym. Keep coming on a regular basis and you'll be one of them.
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Although I know that to be true, The various Greek gods these people seemed to represent made it difficult to believe.
BTW, this is not my first gym I've belonged to. I am not intimidated, but more in awe of their physical shape and determination to keep it. Its more inspiring to me than anything else.
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BINGO!
I'm a well built advanced weight lifter. But I have total respect for people who are just starting (after seeing them steadily for a few weeks) and I'll give hell to anyone who tries to belittle them in any way.
FallenHero,
Don't be intimidated. Be inspired and feel free to ask these people for help and advice. You'll be surprised to know most will be helpful and friendly. Hell, most of us have been out of shape at one time or another and we all started too fat or too skinny.
The only thing that really pisses me off in the gym are smelly people, and people who don't rack their weights.
That's been my experience at the gym. I've found that most of the 'built' people at the gym are actually very helpful. They'll give you a spot if you need it, they almost always ask if you are using a machine if you happen to be standing near it (as opposed to just jumping on it), they'll randomly give you lifting tips if they happen to see you doing a lift wrong, etc...
When I first went to a gym, I felt tiny compared to all the other guys. Didn't stop me from going to the gym though.
I'll second getting a Y membership - plenty of good equipment at my local Y, large variety fitness levels.
The only thing you can to do piss me off at a gym is not workout and just talk, or disrespect the equipment. I don't care if you are 400 pounds and hit hurts to tie your shoelaces. If you ask me a question I'll answer it and help you, but try to watch and learn first, and whatever you do don't try giving me advice.
"hey, you know, squats are terrible for your knees. you shouldn't do them. oh, those deadlifts are really bad for your back too. you should use this machine over here to target those muscles" :disgust:
Same here. Well, to an extent anyway. I started off as a scrawny college soph by working out at the main rec center on campus where everyone looked like they'd just stepped off the set of a bowflex commercial. The girls were nice to look at, but it was just too crowded and a lot of the guys were kind of smug jerks who hogged equipment and kind of looked down their noses at you.
I started trying one of the more rundown gyms on campus closer to my apt. My first impression after walking in was, 'I am the wimpiest person in this building by a MILE.' It was all monster-built guys who could eat the guys at the main gym for lunch and snap me in half like a twig. But they were actually really cool and extremely helpful. Despite packing a fair amount of muscle on my thin frame over the next couple years, I was still one of the wimpiest guys in the building by a mile.
But it was cool. The only scary part was when one of them would ask me to spot for them while they were lifting some insane weight that I knew I wouldn't be able to bail them out of. :QTRENDING THREADS
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